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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791683403321

Autore

Davidson Janine

Titolo

Lifting the fog of peace : how Americans learned to fight modern war / / Janine Davidson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2010

ISBN

1-282-88295-3

9786612882951

0-472-02298-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

355/.033573

Soggetti

Military doctrine - United States

Counterinsurgency - United States

Nation-building - United States

United States Military policy

United States Armed Forces

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

On the front lines with America's nation builders -- Military learning and competing theories of change -- Two centuries of small wars and nation building -- Vietnam to Iraq : debating the "new world order" -- Learning to learn : the training revolution in the post-Vietnam military -- Doctrine and education for the new force -- Learning to surge in Iraq -- Learning theory and military change in the 21st century.